the largest percent of the world’s population, containing both China and India, as well is the largest producer of tea and rice. Thus, the five most important characteristics that make Asia unique as a world region are the region’s large, dense population, rice culture, tea culture, array of religion, and multiple intricate languages. The first characteristic of the Asian region making it unique as a whole is the enormous population it boasts and provides to the world’s total population. From the
Upon coming across my decision on what my paper would be about, it was very evident that I would be discussing the Asian cuisine, due to me often watching a clips on YouTube of them eating live octopus, squid or fish. It amazes me to see some of the things they eat and how they eat it. In their tradition, it is polite to slurp your food while eating. It lets the chef know you are enjoying it or they prepared it just right. Food is very important to them, when they are walking on the street often
The Asian food diet is among one of the healthiest cultural diets in the world. A majority of their meals consist of fresh fruits, vegetables, and rice. As far as meats go, people of the Asian culture do not typically eat as much as other cultures, however when they do eat meat it is usually fish. Food is prepared stir-fried, deep fried, steamed, or just plain raw. Meats are rarely the main dish in any of their meals and are more of a side dish. In most of the Asian cultures there diet revolves
The notorious stereotype that Asians are good at math seems like a derogatory statement saying that no other culture can compete with the advanced math skills of an Asian. Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers The Story of Success gives insight to how a person’s cultural and family background has a much greater influence on a person’s life than is perceived, specifically their intellect. For example, Asian students have a greater advantage over the rest of the word on the TIMSS test, a test which is taken
readers that persistence, hard work, dedication and having the mindset of achievement is what leads to success in life. In China, rice was cultivated thousands of years ago. Which spread to East Asia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. This was a tedious job with no days off, but they had to do it in order to survive. They ate rice as meals, sold rice, and traded rice for other necessities. To push themselves to keep going and never give up, they would say things like “No food without blood and
and culture. Basically the immigrants leave their country but they don’t leave their culture. They want to maintain their culture and one of the way to maintain their culture is food. Not only that but also many people want to introduce their culture to other, that’s why they open restaurant. Sometimes people open a restaurant in a diverse area and they cook food combining the recipe of different countries so the place plays an important role for the people who are not even from that culture. From
society is extremely difficult for many people to envision a culture of simplicity, of frugalness. American’s are constantly finding themselves taking unnecessary food leftover and being thrown away. Large portions of food that many other cultural groups from 3rd world countries would simply not take for granted. People would be taken away by the fact that there are people who consider a higher value on items such as bread, rice,and meat like Americans do
It is amazing how diverse the various types of culture can be. From country to country, even down to the different states and regions within the same nation. Culture is said to have five basic characteristics; it is learned, it is has symbolic structure, it is shared, and it has the ability to adapt. It is a system consisting of variables that constitute a rational way of life (Vien, 2003). A change in social environments results in a change in culture as well, which is why Vietnam has three different
As an Asian American, I go to Asian markets, H mart or Komart, around three times in a month. On December 2nd I went to the bigger Asian market, H mart which is located on 2625 Old Denton road in Carrollton for my grocery store assignment. H mart is surrounded by many Korean restaurant and beauty shops.The hall is usually lightly bursting with people around at 5p.m to 6p.m. I feel the shopping space such as corridor or passage of H mart is more cramped than common American grocery stores. Personally
New Asian immigrants might bring new seeds from their original habitats. The new vegetables and grains could help the local residents have diverse food resources, and these entirely new vegetables and grains might replace some native vegetables or grains due to being cheap and easy to grow. In my hypothetical scenario, the soybeans, sesame, sorghum, and paddy, glutinous rice would become the new species. First, the East Asia glutinous rice has some obvious advantages, such